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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Millard, Candice
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1. Chapter one, “Defeat,” depicts dramatic scenes from Roosevelt’s final election. What parallels exist between a risky political career and a risky Rain Forest expedition? What enabled him to survive both?


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Black in Latin America
Gates Jr, Henry Louis
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The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina
Goni, Uki
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Drawing on American and European intelligence documents, Uki Goni shows how from 1946 onward a Nazi escape operation was based at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, harboring such war criminals as Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele. Goni uncovers an... [More...]


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The Golden Empire: Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America
Thomas, Hugh
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From a master chronicler of Spanish history comes a magnificent work about the pivotal years from 1522 to 1566, when Spain was the greatest European power.


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Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Parrado, Nando
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In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.

Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and... [More...]


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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Grandin, Greg
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The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, "Fordlandia" depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch.


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The Last Days of the Incas
MacQuarrie, Kim
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The Lost Fleet: The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy
Clifford, Barry
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On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast. This proved disastrous for French naval power in the region, and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy.
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Chapters of Brazil's Colonial History 1500-1800
De Abreu, Joao Capistrano
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Capistrano de Abreu has created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the economy, settlement, and the occupation... [More...]


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Times Gone by: Memoirs of a Man in Action
Perez Rosales, Vicente
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This is a collection of brief memoirs in which Rosales records his varied adventures in his native Chile, South America, Europe and during the California Gold Rush. Illustrations.


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